As Dalibor’s blog reminded me1, the Nimbus Swing look and feel hit the OpenJDK repositories yesterday. We’ve been waiting on the JDK 6 Update changes to trickle through for some time, so it was great to see this huge lump of code land on us. The downside? It looks like someone accidentally dumped a lump of their build environment in there too, so we’ll have to wait some time until Nimbus is properly in OpenJDK.

But why would anyone want this you ask? Well, I wondered a little myself so I hacked up a little Swing code and found out (after remembering how to write it in the first place — so don’t blame me if it sucks). Here’s the app using Metal (the default on Fedora 10):